Tell that to Mark Twain bud, or just about any great writer who challenged people's assumptions about the world.
Oh my dude, you’re a delight.
You know there’s a difference between challenging people and being offensive because enough just don’t care how your work affects people, right?
What Twain did could not be further to the opposite end from what Sacrosanct is trying to avoid doing.
Twain considered the impact of every written word, and chose what to say based on a desire to challenge his neighbors to
be better people by examining their own BS notions.
You’re advocating not giving a damn, and just writing what you feel like writing. Literally the direct opposite.
“Write for yourself” is self-indulgent nonsense, that Twain would despise with vociferous and eloquent spite.
It is the very height of comedic absurdity that you would come into this thread, performative indignation on your sleeve, to pronounce to the gathered participants your anecdote of the time you rallied against the terrible oppression of being invited to learn about the perspective that perhaps artists should have compassion of all things. All while behaving as though you were providing a novel perspective or argument, no less!
To simultaneously thread-crap, rail against “seeking offense”,
and dive headlong into the thread for seemingly the sole purpose of being offended that anyone expects anything of other people, behaviorally, is genuinely the funniest thing I’ve witnessed in days.